Yesterday I attended the opening of Screen Worlds, a new exhibition space at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. A massive crowd assembled to hear Ms Blanchett launch the show along with Victorian Premiere John Brumby. It's a spectacular exhibition that profiles the development of film and television, games and interactive media [...]
I instantly fell in love with Jenova Chen's game FlOw when I first played it last year. It's such a contemplative experience to play the game - a rare thing in an increasingly accellerated and anxiety ridden world. Tonight I discovered Jenova's earlier game Cloud which he completed while a student at USC. I had [...]
Recently we have been brainstorming concepts and furiously writing new curriculum which we are going to teach at AFTRS in 2009. The work we have been doing at our Laboratory of Advanced Media Production has been influencing many of our new offerings in games, virtual environments and more generally in screen content. The process of [...]